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by Nick Breckon, Oct 01, 2009 11:08am PDTFollowing a ridiculous chain of events, Valve president Gabe Newell will finally be flying to Australia next week to meet a local modder that raised over $3000 for the trip.
The chain began with the modder, known as Joe W-A, finding it unfair that Valve flew several members of a Left 4 Dead 2 boycott group to the company's headquarters. "Why the hell haven't I been flown to Valve? I mean, you guys need to preview my campaign," he wrote to Newell in an email.
"We are boycotting your campaign," Newell replied, to which Joe W-A asked, "Does that mean I have to fly you here?" Newell raised the stakes: "Me and [Valve designer Erik Johnson]."
Unfazed by a $1200 Qantas price quote, Joe W-A solicited help from the gaming community, raising over $3000 for the trip. Valve public relations officially announced Newell and Johnson's plans today.
"In 2003, the community helped the FBI and European law enforcement officials find the people who stole the Half-Life 2 source code," said Newell. "This year, the community is putting me on a plane to the other side of the world to meet Joe W-A and see his MOD. It's going to be a fun trip."
A report on the trip will be posted to the official Left 4 Dead blog following the escapade.
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Not only does he make them fly both of them over there, but hes a pompous ass about it too. I'm not impressed by this at all. Well, this has further solidified my ban on LFD2, in fact I think this will start to spread to every Valve game if this is the attitude that they are giving.
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Me and my cousin even sent him a mail asking some questions about HL1, and believe it or not, we got a more than satisfing answere from him the day after. I don't got that spesific mail anymore, but remember he stated that my gaming PC was even better than his home computer. (I had a Intel Pentium MMX 166MHz, 48MB RAM and a Matrox Millennium gfx card :P)
My impression of Gabe Newell is that this man really got a passion for his games and the community surraounding the games.
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Now they're just like everyone else, sans the fact they want to keep "cred" by doing hilarious stuff like this.
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It's all in good fun. :-)
Gabe was joking, and obviously didn't count on the internet to come through with the funds. lol
http://flygabenewell.blogspot.com/
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I can haz field trip now?
I think that the guys from valve should pay them back every penny, plus more. They can afford it.
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It doesn't make any sense, get off valves back. You want to know what it's like when a developer does give a piss about the community, go play CoD. Love them game, but it pains me to give money to the company that makes it, I have't even bought the latest nazi zombie maps because I don't agree with the gouging EA and Activision are doing. They already have paid DLC maps scheduled for Modern Warfare 2 that isn't out. If it was valve making MW2, those DLC maps would just simply be included with the game.
I seriously don't understand.
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And it is awesome!